Thank you for posting the AIPAC video. I found it very inspiring. Makes you just know that that’s who the important decision makers in government will be listening to. The other rip-off piece is just another typical piss and moan go nowhere radical whine. Needed some musical background played by the world’s smallest violin.

More than ever it brings home the fact that when the PalArabs screw up their end of this Kerry initiative, they’re going to be in a world of hurt. And nobody important is going to give a sweet f&%k.

“More than ever it brings home the fact that when the PalArabs screw up their end of this Kerry initiative, they’re going to be in a world of hurt. And nobody important is going to give a sweet f&%k.esker.

“The family of a Palestinian who died Tuesday at a Be’er Sheva hospital says the cause of death was a heart attack following a beating by prison guards. The Israel Prison Service denies the allegation. The prisoner was Jihad Atwil, 47, of East Jerusalem. He was convicted of traffic violations and had served a three-month sentence at Be’er Sheva Prison. Ten days ago he was released and taken straight to Soroka Medical Center when he complained of feeling ill.
According to a statement by his family and the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs, prison guards beat Atwil and sprayed him in the face with tear gas during a clash. He lost consciousness, suffered a heart attack and fell into a coma before dying at the hospital.

The Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs said the case proves the brutality of Israeli prison guards when dealing with Palestinians. The ministry’s director general, General Ziyad Abu Ein, called for an inquiry independent of the prison service.

Atwil, who was married and the father of five, lived in East Jerusalem’s Ras el-Amud neighborhood. His family, who said he had no history of illness, refused to accept the prison service’s explanation that he died of natural causes and asked for an autopsy. “

“Sure, you could read the very silly mayor, with his pronouncements that firefighters should use peanut butter to put out fires instead of water, and that everyone should paint their houses purple and green, as George Bush. But you could read the very silly mayor as just about any authority figure that people follow without question”

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